Mr. Ralph Howardpresented a Petition from the Noblemen, Gentry, and Landowners of the county of Wicklow, complaining of the 858 efforts which had been made to disturb the tranquillity of Ireland, by seeking for a Repeal of the Legislative Union,—a measure which, in their opinion, would inevitably tend to produce a separation of the two [countries, and a dismemberment of the British empire. The petition was most numerously and respectably signed, and the signatures of the Governor of the county, and of thirty Magistrates had been affixed to it. He begged leave to add, that if his Majesty's Ministers should feel it necessary to come down to that House and ask for the extension beyond another year of the Act for the suppression of illegal associations in Ireland, they should have his support, for he looked upon the agitation which had been so mischievously got up in Ireland for a Repeal of the Union, not as the use, but the abuse, of the laws and Constitution under which we lived.